Tell me how much meditation is helpful to build concentration? Please let me know the simplest method of it?

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Srabonti, the whole aim of meditation is,
1. to calm your mind, and
2. to focus the mind on one thing. It will certainly help to build concentration but to quantify it and say as to how much is needed is not possible. But you will notice that your concentration is improving day by day.

If you sit down and close your eyes you will notice that your mind is jumping from one thought to another. Even though you want to concentrate on your breath you will find other thoughts also coming in between.

In learning to meditate you must first learn to calm your mind. You do this by following every thought that comes into you mind. You must be like a Manager of a Hotel who stands at the entrance and observes the customers coming in. Without getting attached to the thoughts try to observe them. You will find that a thought comes in and that it goes nowhere and another thought follows it - try following that too - with same results. This way you will find that your thoughts gradually subside. Do not try to force out your thoughts.

Of course do not expect results in one or two days. Practise it for at least 40 minutes every day for at least 2 months you find that you have 'killed' your train of thoughts. I have practised for 1 1/2 years and still vagrant thoughts come in.

Thereafter start concentrating on your breath. Notice the breath coming in and going out. You should not concentrate only on the tip of your nose. Notice the breath coming in and thereafter your lungs getting filled and then gradually exhaling the breath.

You should be able to get some guidance from the following sites,

1. http://www.dhamma.org/vipassan.htm
2. http://www.meditationexpert.com/ and click on the free articles on yoga meditation - it includes articles on all types of meditations including christian and muslim meditation.

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do peacefully

the simpilest method is just a quite room dim light and deep beething in threw nose out threw mouth at least 15 min a day is help full

It can be very helpful.

Simplest method is to clear your mind while staring into a candle flame. Deal with each new thought as it appears.

Breathing in through nose and out through mouth helps. So does good posture.

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